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Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations. It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man. Most important, don't do anything you don't want. I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life. It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing. I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart. People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician. God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater. In politics, you must let the other person have your way. Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel. Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Hockey is the original extreme sport. I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life. About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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Gary Becker

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

- Gary Becker


Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

- Gary Becker


I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

- Gary Becker


My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

- Gary Becker


Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

- Gary Becker


The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

- Gary Becker


Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

- Gary Becker


Gary Stanley Becker is an American economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1955. He taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1968, and then returned to The University of Chicago, where he holds joint appointments with the departments of economics, sociology, and the Booth School of Business. Becker won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1967, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992, and received the United States' Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
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